Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā'īl Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī (Urdu: محمد ادریس بن محمد اسماعیل صدیقی کاندھلوی; 20 August 1899 – 28 July 1974) was a Deobandi Islamic researcher especially known as a researcher of hadith and tafsir (interpretation of the Qur'an). He held the post of Shaykh at-Tafsir at Darul Uloom Deoband in India and later relocated to Pakistan where he filled in as Shaykh al-Hadith wat-Tafsir at Jamia Ashrafia Lahore. Outstanding among his composed works are Ma'ariful Qur'an, a tafsir of the Qur'an, Siratul Mustafa, a sirah (history) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and at-Ta'liq as-Sabih, an Arabic sharh (editorial) on the hadith gathering Mishkat al-Masabih. An alum of both Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur and Darul Uloom Deoband, he contemplated under researchers including Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, Anwar Shah Kashmiri, and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani. After finishing his training, in 1921/1338 AH Maulana Idris was named to his first showing post at Madrasah ...